samba - Jun 2002 - Samba as a client to windows2000/98 is slow.

First heres a little background of what I have setup:

One Windows98 machine and Two windows 2000 machines and one linux redhat 6
machine behind a router thats connected to a cable modem. So the machines I
have are sitting on a 192.168.0.255 netmask network.

I need to mount some of the windows shares on the linux machine. This
mounting works fine, and for smaller directory listings it SEEMS to function
properly.

--> Transfering a large list, or a file is VERY slow. It takes something
like 2 MINUTES to transfer ~500kBytes of data.
--> Ftping from the internet through the cable modem I get speeds closer to
about 150kBytes per SECOND.

Also, when doing any smb share activity the 'activity' light on the NIC
does
not flash constantly, but only very briefly with much time between it.

I am running samba Version 2.0.3, and about to install 2.2.4 to see if it
fixes this problem at all.

Any idea you could throw at me would be great!


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I had install samba with ACL support but there're a strange problem. When i
try to copy or write to the share resource it's very slow
With the same file size
it takes 2 minute copy this to another samba server that not support ACL ,
and take 6 minute to copy it to samba server that support ACL.

Who could let me know the reason ?
Best Regards
Trong Ho